City College of San Francisco - California Competes

THEME VI
The data in Table 2, provided by the Office of Research, Planning and Grants, presents the ethnic demographics
of adults, ages 18 and older, who reside in the city and county of San Francisco. According to the
DSS data, between 2000 and 2004, the percentage of CCSF students who resided in the city and county of
San Francisco ranged from 84 percent to 87 percent.
TABLE 2
San Francisco City and County Adult Population
Ages 18 and older (2004) 3
African American 44,010 6.6%
Asian 207,499 30.9%
Pacific Islander 2,692 0.4%
White Non-Hispanic 314,737 46.9%
Hispanic 88,106 13.1%
American Indian 2,471 0.4%
Multiracial 12,223 1.8%
TOTAL 671,738 100.1%
NOTE: Total does not add up to 100 percent due to rounding.
While the ethnic diversity among our classified staff generally matches or exceeds the College’s strategic
priority to “ensure that the College’s workforce reflect(s) the diverse communities we serve,” the ethnic
diversity of our faculty and administration has been growing more slowly. As the passage of Proposition
209 suspended affirmative action practices in hiring, the College has made other efforts to attract teaching
faculty applicants with ethnically diverse backgrounds, of importance especially for departments which
serve large numbers of basic skills level students. The Grow Your Own initiative, supported by discussions
within the College Diversity Committee, is an innovative recruitment program designed to inspire current
or former CCSF students to pursue a teaching or counseling position at CCSF. These students receive
mentoring and scholarships to pursue graduate degrees and serve as teaching or counseling interns at the
College. The Grow Your Own project would benefit from increased promotion and publicity, since, to
date, few students have participated. The project might also expand its outreach to current CCSF classified
employees, many of whom are currently working towards graduate degrees in order to advance their
professional careers.
Other efforts to recruit underrepresented candidates include the Human Resources Department’s participation
in the CCC Affirmative Action Job Fairs, and placement of job announcements in a variety of
appropriate publications, newspapers, trade journals, and websites.
3 Source: State of California, Department of Finance, Race/Ethnic Population with Age and Sex Detail, 2000–2050.
Sacramento, CA, May 2004.
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